YMMV / The Boogie Man

• Complete Monster: The titular Boogie Man, really Brendon Dumont, is a cold and theatrical murderer. Seeking to make himself into a feared monster, Brendon holds a tour of Livingstone Castle, then hijacks the tour to force Detective Keith Baring into a Deadly Game. After brutally killing his nine servants and a dog and leaving their mutilated corpses for Keith to find, he kidnaps tour guide Stevie Small, injecting him with drugs and skinning him to mentally break him, then leaves him tied up to bleed to death. Putting the others inside various Death Traps, he challenges Keith to save them, kidnapping and torturing his wife Helena as well. Despite being fully human, Brendon proves himself worse than any supernatural being.
• Narm: The voice acting in the game is...spotty, not helped by the obvious varying audio quality of each of the voice actors. It leads to certain scenes coming across as much more awkward and stilted than they should be.
• Obvious Judas: Brendon Dumont being the Boogie Man is guessed by quite a lot of players since he owns the mansion the Boogie Man uses as his killing grounds and fills with traps, he acts a little too nice, and when he is supposedly beheaded, “his” face is covered by a sack, and the cut is far too clean compared to the gorey deaths every other character gets.
• Tear Jerker: Everything surrounding Tod’s death. Helena was too distraught to confirm if the body was her son’s, so Keith had to confirm it instead. Before he can console his wife, he gets a call from his superior and Dick isn’t informed about what just happened. Keith just returns to work despite Helena begging him to stay, and this is when Keith begins dreading the sound of ringing phones.